Patrice Chereau

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Patrice Chéreau in 2009 at the 66th Venice Film Festival

Patrice Chéreau (born November 2, 1944 in Lézigné , Maine-et-Loire department , † October 7, 2013 in Paris ) was a French film, theater and opera director , screenwriter and actor .

Life

Patrice Chéreau went to school in Paris and was already noticed by the Parisian critics as a director, actor and set designer in the amateur theater of the grammar school , so that he was celebrated as a theater prodigy at the age of 15. At the age of 19, productions at a professional theater followed.

In 1966 he built what is known as a dedicated folk theater in the Paris suburb of Sartrouville . There he staged a. a. the piece The soldiers by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz . From 1970 there was a close collaboration with the Milan Piccolo Teatro , with Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler . He worked in Germany for the first time in 1975 when he directed Edward Bonds Lear .

From the late 1960s, Chéreau worked exclusively with the architect and painter Richard Peduzzi , who designed all the stage sets for him.

Chéreau took an early interest in music theater , staging his first opera in 1969. In 1974, he staged Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach (conductor Georges Prêtre ) in Paris . His Ring des Nibelungen became legendary on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1976 - also known as the Ring of the Century . His Lulu interpretation of Alban Berg's opera in Paris in 1979 (world premiere of the three-act version by Friedrich Cerha ; conductor Pierre Boulez ) also caused a stir . In 1994 he directed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni (conductor Daniel Barenboim ) for the Salzburg Festival . The German Academy for Language and Poetry awarded him the Friedrich Gundolf Prize in 1993 for conveying German culture abroad ; In 2003 he was awarded the Kythera Prize and in 2008 the European Theater Prize.

Patrice Chéreau also made a name for himself as a widely acclaimed film director . He made his first film The Meat of the Orchid in 1975. His greatest success was the award-winning film The Bartholomew Night in 1994 with Isabelle Adjani in the leading role. His 2001 film Intimacy , an explicit portrait of a sexual relationship and the emotional alienation that surrounds it , also caused quite a stir . With this film he won the Golden Bear at the 2001 Berlinale . His next film His Brother was also in competition there and brought Chéreau the Silver Bear in the category Best Director at the 2003 Berlinale . In 2009, Chéreaus Film Persécution was invited to compete at the 66th Venice Film Festival .

Chéreau was politically active all his life. In 1962 he demonstrated against the Algerian war, in 1979 he supported the future Czech President Václav Havel , he showed Bartholomew's Night in Sarajevo during the 1994 siege. When the right-wing populist FPÖ became part of the Austrian government coalition in 2000, Chéreau boycotted the Salzburg Festival.

On October 7, 2013, Patrice Chéreau died of lung cancer in Paris at the age of 68 . He was buried on the Cimetière du Père Lachaise (16th Division).

Filmography

Director

script

  • 1978: Les contes d'Hoffmann (TV)

actor

Theater work (direction)

play

... The lovers from Pont-Neuf (Germany)
Lovers on the Ninth Bridge (Australia: video title)
... The Lovers on the Bridge (USA)

Opera

Documentaries

  • Patrice Chéreau, passion for the body. (OT: Patrice Chéreau, le corps au travail. ) Documentary, France, 2009, 75 min., Script and director: Stéphane Metge, production: AMIP, arte France, Ina , German first broadcast: November 15, 2010 by arte, summary by arte.
  • Patrice Chéreau: eclectic and Elektra. Conversation with video recordings, France, 2013, 42:30 min., Moderation: Vincent Josse, production: arte France, editing: Square , first broadcast: July 7, 2013 by arte, summary by arte. Interview and video clips on the occasion of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence .

Web links

Commons : Patrice Chéreau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. Christine Lemke-Matwey : "Wagner is lighter than Mozart" In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 24, 2007 (interview).
  2. ^ "Intimacy" director Patrice Chéreau is dead. In: Spiegel Online , October 7, 2013
  3. Mort de Patrice Chereau. In: Liberation , October 7, 2013 (French)
  4. See information and grave photo on knerger.de